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To: ApplegateRanch
When it was time to plant the white greasy beans, it was evident that we were going into a drought ... I was already having to water everything planted. So, I still have the seeds and I am so anxious to plant them in the spring.

It was a highly unusual season for everybody I've been in contact with -- from Montana to the east coast and everything south of that.

In spite of the horrible heat and drought, my scarlet hull peas and zipper cream peas produced heavily, as did my speckled lima beans. In fact, my lima beans started producing in early August and they are still filling out pods.

My cantaloupes on the trellis did very well, but all of my squashes were horrible and many died before they made anything. The cukes were okay, but nothing special.

There were so many things that I didn't plant at all. I simply couldn't imagine why I should try to grow something else when everything I had planted previously was struggling to make it.

60 posted on 10/17/2011 6:34:40 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
There were so many things that I didn't plant at all. I simply couldn't imagine why I should try to grow something else when everything I had planted previously was struggling to make it.

Wish I had that luxury, but our season is so short that it either all goes in, or there wouldn't time for anything to mature. Exception is the peas, potatoes, and other root crops that go in a few weeks before it's warm enough for the rest. Irrigating is a foregone assumption, as our dry season starts 2-3 weeks after the June hail storms end.

Down to 26-28 by morning, so the curing pumpkins got brought in tonight, the last of the harvest.

65 posted on 10/18/2011 9:13:41 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch ("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
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